ONE HEALTH
Where vets for large animals are needed
Where five percent more veterinary practices for large animals could make a difference. | Graphic: N. G. Criscuolo et al. (2025)
Veterinary care is essential, not just for the health of animals, but also for humans. But according to a map of the world generated by researchers from ETH Zurich and the University of Zurich, in low and middle-income countries the nearest vet for large animals is often more than an hour away by car (here, green dots denote the confirmed presence of a vet’s practice, brown dots where a practice is believed to exist). Increasing the number of these vets in a country by just five percent could improve accessibility (see the orange dots), as is shown in the cases of Kenya and Ecuador.
